✧1Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children, ✧2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God. ✧3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. ✧4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. ✧5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ✧6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. ✧7Therefore do not be partakers with them. ✧8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
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✧9for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.